Encourage reflective backtalk: Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.

Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua non in becoming an integrated person.

Just as no great painting has ever been created by a committee, no great vision has ever emerged from the herd.

Great things are achieved by talented people who are absolutely convinced that they not only can but will achieve them.

Think of successful creative collaborations are dreams with deadlines.

Who succeeds in forming and leading a Great Group? He or she is almost always a pragmatic dreamer. They are people who get things done, but they are people with immortal longings. Often, they are scientifically minded people with poetry in their souls.

The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.